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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/color-blind-m...

I made this so I could share pictures of maps with my color blind friend. You right click on a picture of a map, select color-blind map fixer and it re-colors the map. I made it in about a day, it needs some work to handle edges (especially because many pictures of labeled maps are jpegs with artifacts instead of pngs for some reason) and it's slower than it should be.

At some point, Mozilla decided that in order to log in, I should use some sort of Google authenticator app for some reason. I dropped and broke the phone that app was installed on. So it's unlikely I will ever work on again to this or any other Firefox add-on sadly.



)-: This is why I don't use certain authenticators that assume one-and-only-one is safe. I guess people who make them either have stuff they don't mind losing access to permanently, or don't know the first part of the Backup Mantra: one is none; two is one.


I'm sure there's some way I could get it off the drive of the broken phone which I still have somewhere, but quite honestly, if an organization is going to make it hard to interact with them, I won't do it unless I have to (banks, hospitals lol). I still like Firefox but I'm not gonna make extensions if they're gonna make my life harder.




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